I have some production experience with Golang and one thing that helps it emulate Erlang's BEAM VM (also used by Elixir, FYI) is to have the goroutines be short

I have some production experience with Golang and one thing that helps it emulate Erlang's BEAM VM (also used by Elixir, FYI) is to have the goroutines be short-lived and/or disposable. No need for persistent workers most of the time anyway unless you are chasing every last millisecond of performance -- in those cases persistent workers waiting to snatch a job definitely perform better (though only by something like 1-2% in my limited experience; but that can be still a lot depending on hosting and workloads and customer expectations f.ex. in finance forgoing 1-2% perf is almost criminal). So the BEAM VM definitely handles things a bit better but Golang can get quite close.